INVENT.ME
Every company has ideas that could change the business. Most never get explored.
invent.me is an independent invention team for companies that don’t have the time or capacity to chase every promising idea. Bring us a problem, an opportunity, or just a What if? We’ll investigate it, invent around it, and make the smallest thing necessary to find out whether there’s something there.
For example
Your team has a roadmap. Operations has fires. IT has tickets. Engineering has commitments. And that idea you keep coming back to is still sitting in a note, a spreadsheet, or somebody’s head.
That’s where invent.me comes in.
We create a temporary lane for the things your organization is curious about but not ready to turn into a project.
Bring us
An idea
I keep thinking we could…
A problem
Why does this still take five people?
An opportunity
Customers keep asking for…
An annoyance
Everyone hates this part.
A question
Could AI actually do this now?
A sketch
Literally. We love sketches.
You know your business. We know how to turn curiosity into evidence.
How it works
Get close to the problem. Talk to people. Observe the work. Pull the useful data. Challenge the premise.
Generate alternatives before falling in love with the first answer. Software, AI, hardware, workflow, or no new technology at all.
Build only enough to answer the important question: a working app, AI agent, CAD model, simulation, physical prototype, workflow, or something we haven’t thought of yet.
Put it in front of reality. Users, operators, data, physics, economics, whatever can prove us wrong fastest.
GO. ITERATE. STOP. You leave with evidence and a recommendation, not a dependency on us.
A lot of firms make their real money after discovery, when the six-month implementation contract starts.
That isn’t our model.
invent.me is deliberately focused on the uncertain part: understanding, inventing, prototyping, and proving. If the right answer is STOP, that is a successful engagement.
If the answer is GO, we’ll give your team, or the partner you choose, what they need to take it forward.
Sometimes the most valuable thing we build is the evidence not to build.
Work
The question
What we made
A hyperlocal app for teams to schedule games, join tournaments, chat, and meet nearby players.
What we learned
The product question and the density question are different questions. Building the app answered the first one quickly and made the second one measurable.
The question
What we made
A scoring companion for a card game, built small and shipped in many languages.
What we learned
Narrow travels. The app found an audience well beyond where it started, without growing into a platform.
The question
What we made
An automated booking and question-answering system for service workers, built inside a day.
What we learned
A 24-hour deadline is a scoping tool. It forces the question of what actually has to exist for the idea to be judged, which is the same question a Sprint asks with a longer clock.
The question
What we made
An accelerated UAV redesign run against a government solicitation deadline.
What we learned
Most of the traditional schedule is handoffs and waiting rather than work. Compressing the research and trade-study phases moved the whole critical path.
The question
What we made
Research into flat-manufactured compliant mechanisms that deploy into three-dimensional motion.
What we learned
The approach preserved kinematic performance while substantially reducing both build volume and material use.
The question
What we made
An urgent physical base design and fabrication, delivered in about a week.
What we learned
Perceived quality in a held object is dominated by weight and balance rather than surface finish. Solving for mass first made a printed part read as finished.
Team
Executive Strategy
He’s seen this movie before. Decades of building companies, software, teams, and technology strategy. Robert helps separate promising ideas from expensive distractions.
Product & Invention
Figure out what’s worth making. Customer problems, product strategy, operations, experiments, and the connective tissue between an idea and something people can actually try.
Software & AI
Make the digital thing work. AI/ML, data, automation, full-stack software, and extremely fast technical prototypes.
Mechanical & Product Engineering
Make the physical thing work. Mechanical design, CAD/FEA, simulation, prototyping, DFM, manufacturing, and hardware R&D.
Depending on the problem, we assemble the smallest team necessary.
Meet the teamYou don’t need a deck. You don’t need requirements. You don’t even need to know whether the answer is software.
Tell us what keeps making you say “What if?”
We’ll tell you quickly whether it sounds like an invent.me problem.